In this week’s episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel The Antelope Wife. Topics include complicated family trees (WE TRIED OUR BEST), the science behind male lactation, and how a delicious cake can save your life. In conclusion: we are all just beads (and boats).

This week’s drink: Blueberry Moscow Mule

INGREDIENTS: 

• 2 oz Vodka
• 1 oz blueberry syrup
• ½ oz lime juice
• Lime wheel

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Put vodka, ice, and blueberry simple syrup into shaker, shake 30 seconds. 
2. Pour into copper mug, top with ginger beer, garnish with lime wheel. 

Current reads, recommendations, and links:

• Where I Was From by Joan Didion
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
• The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers
• The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

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Join us next time as we discuss One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

Here is the cocktail recipe for next week’s episode if you want to drink along with us!

Canchánchara via liquor.com

INGREDIENTS 

• 1 1/2 ounces aguardiente or white rum
• 1 lime, freshly squeezed
• 1/2 ounce honey syrup
• 1 splash club soda
• Garnish: lime wedge

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Add the rum, juice of one lime and honey syrup into a shaker with ice, and shake until well-chilled.
2. Strain into a clay or glass mug filled with fresh ice.
3. Top with a splash of club soda.
4. Garnish with a lime wedge.